Holistic risk management: perspectives from IT professionals

Executive Summary

Business continuity planning and IT security management are becoming an integral part of enterprise-wide risk management and business resilience frameworks at a growing number of organisations. This creates both challenges and opportunities for business continuity practitioners, IT security specialists and risk management executives.

From ways to assess risk, adapting existing tools or creating new ones, there are a number of strategies for IT professionals to consider as part of their role in business resilience strategy. This IBM research report takes a closer look at how the drive towards more holistic risk management is affecting the day-to-day work and creating a broader role for IT.